Metallic stud or furring-strip.



W. B. PHILLIPS.

METALLIC STUD 0R FURRING STRIP.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 17,1909.

Patented July 12, 1910.v

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METALLIC STUD 0R FURRING-STRIP.

To all whom 'it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER B. PHILLIPS,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Metallic Stud o1l Fu1rin0'-Strip, of which the following is a specihcation.

This invention relates to improvements ina metallic stud 0r urring strip for use with perforated sheets or expanded metal lath now generally employed in ireproof construction, and one of my objects is to provide a simple and inexpensive stud of this character to which the lath maybe quickly and reliably secured. f

lA. further object is to provide a stud of such configuration in cross section that reat rigidity may be obtained with thin or ight sheet metal, and whereby two or more studs may be readily spliced together.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, reference will now be made to the accompanying drawing, in which:y

Figure 1 represents a broken perspective of the metallicjstud with metal latli attached thereto. VFig. 2 is a perspective of two studs spliced together. Fig. 3 isa lan view of the stud. Fig. 4 is a modified crm of the stud.

In constructing the stud I roll or otherof sheet-metal and bend the same longitu inally to form a body portion 1, and a air of wings 2, bent at right angles to said Ibody portion. Body portion 1 is concaved at its central portion 3 to add to the rigidity thereof, so that the stud may be constructed from co1nparativelyA light metal. j

Viings 2 are preferably parallel with each other-:and form two flat surfaces at opposite sides' of the stud against which the lath is placed in constructing a hollow partition wall. `Wings 2 have integral eyes or apertured lugs 4 struck therefrom and bent at right angles thereto so that the metal lath Specicaton of Letters Patent. Application filed may 17.,

Patented July I2, 1910;.

1909. serial No. 496,4e1.

may be sus ended from said eyes, to which it is reliabil) secured by pins or nails 5, which are p aced through the eyes.

When the eyes are bent outwardly from the wings openings 6 are leftin the same through which the eyes on the opposing stud may project when splicing two or more studs together, as shown in Fig. 2.

In the modified form, shown in Fig. 4, 1u designates the stud, which has eyes 4a -projecting from butl one side thereof to receive the lath which is plastered on both sides to form a thin but solid partition wall, the thickness of which extends from a point outside of the eyes to a point outside of the bend 7 formed by the V-shaped portion 8 of the stud.

Having thus described my invention,v

what I c m is Metallic studding and joints therefor, comprising, in combination, len ths of sheet metal strips having parallel siv es upturned at right angles along their longitudinal edges to form trough-like members, and placed back to back with said parallel sides in overlapping relation, spaced ugs stamped from said sides and turned outwardly at right angles thereto, each of said lugs having a central aperture stamped therein, and said lugs being disposed and constructed to permit the sides of one member to en age the opposing sides of the opposite mem er and to permit the lugs of a side of one member to extend through the adjacent side of the opposing member and lying in juxtaposition to the lu s of said iirst mentioned side, whereby t e a ertures of said juxtaposed lugs are brought into operation, and' pins inserted through said re istered apertures.

In testimony whereof I ax my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

WALTER B. PHILLIPS.

Witnesses s I?. Gr. Freemen,

M. Cox. 

